作者
Susan D Hillis, Alexandra Blenkinsop, Andrés Villaveces, Francis B Annor, Leandris Liburd, Greta M Massetti, Zewditu Demissie, James A Mercy, Charles A Nelson III, Lucie Cluver, Seth Flaxman, Lorraine Sherr, Christl A Donnelly, Oliver Ratmann, H Juliette T Unwin
发表日期
2021/12/1
期刊
Pediatrics
卷号
148
期号
6
页码范围
e2021053760
出版商
American Academy of Pediatrics
简介
BACKGROUND
Most coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths occur among adults, not children, and attention has focused on mitigating COVID-19 burden among adults. However, a tragic consequence of adult deaths is that high numbers of children might lose their parents and caregivers to COVID-19–associated deaths.
METHODS
We quantified COVID-19–associated caregiver loss and orphanhood in the United States and for each state using fertility and excess and COVID-19 mortality data. We assessed burden and rates of COVID-19–associated orphanhood and deaths of custodial and coresiding grandparents, overall and by race and ethnicity. We further examined variations in COVID-19–associated orphanhood by race and ethnicity for each state.
RESULTS
We found that from April 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021, >140 000 children in the …
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